Some of the audience members in Toronto fainted during the final amputation scene. On May 4, , Ralston appeared at the Swiss Economic Forum and gave a speech about "how he did not lose his hand, but gained his life back.
He later noted that surviving being trapped in the canyon had given him a sense of invincibility, at a time that it should have humbled him.
He lost friends to suicide, and became depressed after his girlfriend broke up with him in , and has tried to shift his focus away from adventure seeking for esteem purposes. After his recovery he continued to climb mountains, including Aconcagua in , and in , Ojos del Salado in Chile and Monte Pissis in Argentina. Ralston documented his experience in an autobiographical book titled Between a Rock and a Hard Place, published by Atria Books in September, It hit 1 in New Zealand and Australia, and is the 7 best-selling memoir of all-time in the United Kingdom.
On September 28, , he appeared on the radio program The Bob Rivers Show and described his ordeal as "six days of terror and horror. While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder became dislodged while he was climbing down from it.
The boulder first smashed his left hand, and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Ralston had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help. After the accident occurred, Ralston made numerous appearances in the media.
Ralston worked as a mechanical engineer with Intel in Ocotillo, Tacoma and Albuquerque for five years, but found himself burned out by working in a large corporation.
During his time as an engineer he had built up skills in mountaineering, and in he quit in order to climb Denali. He moved to Aspen, Colorado in order to pursue a life of climbing mountains. Aron Lee Ralston born October 27, is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm.
During a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. After five days he was able to amputate his arm with a dull pocketknife, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a foot 20 m drop, and hike 7 miles 11 km to safety. Aron Ralston was born on October 27, in Marion, Ohio. He and his family moved to Denver when he was 12, where he attended Cherry Creek High School and learned to ski and backpack.
In an emergency situation, confidence builds a stable mental frame of mind. And that's really important. There's probably a lot of people walking around thinking they can deal with those types of situations, but I've seen people end their lives out there because they completely lost their mental stability.
He could have left a note. He could have had a buddy. To me, one of the biggest problems out there is people don't tell someone that they're going to a particular location. It's really not that difficult to do, and to me, it doesn't take away from the wilderness experience.
What bothered me was the way the media made him out to be quite a hero. But they never talked about how the guy got himself into trouble because he really made some poor decisions. What's kind of irritating is that rescuers have to go out and deal with those types of situations—a lot—and most of the time they're preventable.
When one person, in this case Aron Ralston, gets himself into trouble, a bunch of SAR volunteers' lives may be placed in jeopardy in order to help him. Even when you have trained experts that are conducting rescue activities, the environment that you're working in—whether it be the top of Mount Everest or the North Pole or out here in the middle of the desert, out in the middle of canyon country—is a dangerous environment.
No training or equipment can completely remove the danger from the wilderness. If a SAR volunteer is conducting a nighttime rescue, walking along canyon rims with no moon, he can step through a slot just as easily as anyone else. That's something that the public doesn't seem to give much thought to. Because one guy Aron Ralston got himself into a particular situation, 15 or 16 SAR volunteers will be placed in a similar, potentially deadly, scenario.
You need enough information about what you're getting ready to do, so you're prepared, so you really have an understanding. Having enough water is number one. Being able to start a fire is number two. The proper clothing is important.
A cell phone can be a big help. As long as you're not down in the bottom of a canyon, you've got excellent coverage. Also, having your ego in check, realizing that you may be getting in over your head, is essential. In an age of extreme sports, people are getting themselves into more difficult situations all the time. People come into the area, and in a lot of cases they have a kind of superman mentality—they are trying to push the envelope.
You must understand your limitations. If you climb down into a canyon slot, have you already figured out how you're going to get out? It's a matter of keeping your head and using your resources. That's what's so significant about Aron. He had water, a knife, and the skills that allowed him to pull off what he did—in addition to having the guts to cut his arm off. Survival still goes back to some pretty basic skills and some basic thoughts in terms of how to react. Even in this day and age, it isn't really any more sophisticated than that.
All rights reserved. Describe the area Ralston was exploring. He ruled out the most drastic option — suicide — but the next most drastic alternative came to him immediately.
That little back-and-forth. Then, 'Wait a minute. I'm not talking to myself. That's just crazy. You're not talking to yourself, Aron. After two days spent fruitlessly chipping away at the rock with his knife and devising a clever but futile system of pulleys with his climbing clips and ropes to hoist the boulder clear — he was defeated because climbing rope is stretchy and he couldn't obtain the required tension — he put his knife to his arm, only to find it was so blunt he couldn't even cut his body hair.
In Boyle's film, when Ralston realises he can use the knife like a dagger rather than a saw, the camera follows the knife's journey into his flesh so the audience can see blade come to rest against bone inside his arm. This scene is "beautiful" to Ralston. He vividly remembers how it felt to have the knife in his arm, touching his bone "because it meant, I'm gonna die. It went from, 'I did it! By the fifth day, Ralston had found "peace" in "the knowledge that I am going to die here, this is my grave".
In the middle of his final night, hallucinating through hunger, lack of water and 3C temperatures, he had a vision of a small boy. I see myself scoop him up and there's this look in his eyes, 'Daddy, can we play now? Now it's like, I am going to get through this night. The next morning, finally, came the rage and its revelation — that Ralston could fling himself against the boulder to break his own bones.
From then, it was easy. The snap of his bones "like, pow! It's an 'it'. It's no longer my arm. As I picked up the knife, I was very cool and collected. It is striking in Ralston's own book, and in Franco's portrayal in the film, just how curiously unemotional he is about his predicament, which he views not self-pityingly nor self-critically but simply as a series of problems to be solved.
When asked why the epiphany that leads to his freedom came through anger and not his more characteristic rational thought, Ralston gives a particularly good answer. It's not just about exercising your strengths," he says, flexing his good arm, "it's also about exercising what aren't your strengths. And yet here's this way I was very heart-centred, both finding my strength and finding the solution.
It didn't have anything to do with logic, it had to do with the sensation, the feeling of the bone just bending in a really weird way. Then it became a thought: 'I can break my bones. In the canyon, Ralston calculated it would take him at least 10 hours to find medical help and he would bleed to death but, using pieces of climbing kit as a tourniquet, he strapped himself up and somehow managed to scale a 65ft cliff to escape the canyon.
Exposed to the fierce sun, he was found by three Dutch tourists, who gave him water and helped him stagger on, before he was picked up by a search-and-rescue helicopter dispatched by his family to look for him. Watching these scenes on film, "that's where I start getting all weepy-eyed," says Ralston, "because when I see that helicopter what I'm seeing is my mom, because she made the rescue happen.
Where Ralston is radically different today, in the flesh, compared with his pre-accident self as portrayed by Franco in the film, is in his recognition that he depends on other people. The love of others, his relationships with his family and friends, kept him alive, he says now. That reinforced his agnosticism — 'I did this all on my own and God doesn't exist because if he did, he would've helped me out, that fucker.
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